#Run macvim file code#
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One of the great things about using vim is that you can simply type vim filename.md to open a file in vim from within the terminal.

#Run macvim file download#

When you download a snapshot of MacVim, you’ll find a compressed file that includes MacVim.app, mvim (a command-line tool) and a README file. To get a copy of MacVim, you can grab the latest snapshot here. One of the reasons why I started using MacVim was its built in support for the yank command to copy to the system’s clipboard. The reason I didn't notice this difference is that terminal Vim renders the characters the same way.MacVim is a great complement to Vim for the Mac. It does, and ga with cursor on ä gives ' typed Therefore this is likely a MacVim-specific problem.ī.) I was wrong to say this does not affect terminal Vim. Other filesystems seem to favor but not enforce UNF-C, composed. fileencodings is set to ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1 and fileformats to unix,dos,mac.Ī.) NFS+ requires file names to only contain characters in Unicode Normal Form D, that is, accented accented characters are decomposed. fileencoding defaults to encoding if it is not set, but I have also tried setting it explicitly before writing the buffer to file with no difference. But I have tested that it is already set by the time my vimrc is sourced (that's why I don't set it myself) so I figure that should be ok. I'm not sure where this option is set since latin1 is the default, I'm not setting it in my vimrc and :verbose set encoding doesn't tell me anything. Terminal Vim does not seem to have this problem.Įncoding is set to utf-8. There is no byte value 228 (ä) or 168 (¨) anywhere in the buffer. When I run it for a line with ja¨derberg.txt I get jaderberg.txt. I wrote a function to loop through all characters on the line and convert each to a number and back to a char, then write the results to the buffer. With the cursor on j and pressing l until end of line, here is how the line changes.

If I move the cursor over the characters ja¨derberg.txt in the buffer, they change. I'm not sure what other info is relevant, so ask and I'll add. I don't understand why Vim should fail to correctly display the decomposed ä that is actually stored in the file name, and only when I give the file name with a decomposed ä. This seems to correspond to a difference between composed and decomposed characters.

I don't know much about this, but I can tell there is a difference between how Terminal treats the character ä that I type and the character ä that is stored in a file name and completed with.

#Run macvim file code#

'Accented characters' can be stored as a single code point or as a series of code points.

Why is my status line not displaying the file name correctly when I open MacVim from Terminal and tab-complete the filename? If I type mvim jä Terminal refuses to complete the file name. If in Terminal I type out the whole file name, mvim jäderberg.txt, everything is fine. The file opens, but the statusline displays ja¨derberg.txt. Now I run MacVim from Terminal by typing mvim j. I do i% to put the file name into the buffer and it puts jäderberg.txt. My status line displays the file name jäderberg.txt. In MacVim I type :tabe jäderberg.txt to open a buffer for that file.